CINA (1650
kHz) is a
commercial
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AM radio station
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,
licensed
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to
Mississauga,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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and serving the
Greater Toronto area. It is owned by Neeti Prakash Ray and it broadcasts a
South Asian format of
talk,
news
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and
music
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shows. It is co-owned with a similar station in
Windsor
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,
CINA-FM
CINA-FM (102.3 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a mixture of English-language and ethnic/multilingual music and programming in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
The station broadcasts with an antenna aimed toward the northwest and southeast, to pr ...
.
By day, CINA is powered at 5,000
watt
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s. But to protect other stations from interference, at night it reduces power to 680 watts. During
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, the power is 1,000 watts. A
non-directional antenna
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is used. The
transmitter
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is on Eglinton Avenue East at Tomken Road in Mississauga.
Overview
The station application was approved by the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on April 23, 2007. It began testing in late 2008. The official
sign-on
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was in December 2008.
CINA focuses most of its airtime on
India
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n and
Pakistan
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i audiences, airing a mixture of community-oriented talk programming with
Bollywood
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and other South Asian music. Owner Neeti Prakash Ray was formerly the host of ''Radio India'', a popular local radio show which aired on
CKTB
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in the 1990s. CINA's format is based in large part on that program.
On March 14, 2011, CINA received CRTC approval to increase the daytime transmitter power to 5,000 watts from the previous power of 1,000 watts. The nighttime power remains at 680 watts and all other technical parameters are unchanged.
Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2011-183
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Programming
CINA AM caters predominantly to the South Asian community, featuring programming in the following languages: Hindi
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, Bengali
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* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
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, Gujarati
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* Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat
* Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
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, Punjabi and . It also airs some Armenian
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and Indo-Caribbean programming on weekends.
References
External links
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Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario
Mass media in Mississauga
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South Asian Canadian culture
Radio stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Ontario